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“Random Nexus is approaching,” Kari said.
Chapter 8
Circling Hades
A bright white light enveloped Tyler has his body moved forward. Then it felt as some force pushed him out into weird land. He looked around; the sky was multi-colored and rocks where floating in place. He was in a barren wasteland with nothing but a sword sticking out of the ground. Thinking it was the resting place of a fallen hero, Tyler moved on.
“FOOL!” A shaky feminine voice yelled from the abyss.
“What?” Tyler yelled, looking around.
“YOU WHO DID NOT PICK UP THE SWORD HAVE SIGNED YOUR DEATH WARRANT! ICE GRAVE!” the voice yelled. A sword appeared from the abyss and struck the ground producing ice cycles rushing at Tyler.
“Waaahhhaarrgggg!” Tyler yelled as the ice hit him.
“Oh crap! I over did it. No no no no nonono! He’s dead! I killed my partner! Crap, crap, crap! I’m not any good at being a bad guy,” a female was panicking at the feet of Tyler. She wasn’t human though. She had dark blue hair cut shoulder length and horns jutting from her forehead. Her skin was a very pale blue color. She wore a white halter top, baggy white cloth pants, and blue pointed shoes that curled at the end.
“Uhh…,” Tyler groaned.
“He groaned! That means he’s alive and I didn’t kill him and I want get in trouble! I know I need to use a stamina health elixir thing! Maybe I should have learned healing stuff like my sister, Lethe. Oh well, no time to fret over that. I found the potion thingy! I hope it works on humans,” she said as she opened it and poured the contents on Tyler. The liquid seeped into his wounds and sealed them up.
“What happened?” Tyler said setting up.
“I’m so sorry! You were supposed to grab that sword and then we were suppose to spar and then we’d be partners. But, you didn’t grab the sword so I thought I could teach you about reaction speed. I’m sorry. I’m a bad teacher and you almost died,” her eyes were starting to swell up.
“Are you my elemental?” Tyler asked.
“Y-yes. I-I’m Co-co-cocytus,” her voice was starting to shake. “I know b-both Ice and Dark elements,” she said in a big breathe. She started taking faster breathes. “I’m not as smart as my sister or as outgoing as my brother. In fact I’m pretty timid. I chose to use the two handed sword as a support and something to hide behind,” she said glancing between the ground and Tyler. “I hope I can be of service to you.”
Tyler was wondering how much of that was true. A few moments ago she tried to kill him and was screaming her head off and now she wants to be shy?
“Y-you don’t trust me, do you?” Cocytus said looking at the ground. Tyler didn’t say anything and she started to cry. “My human doesn’t trust me,” she said quietly after a few minutes of crying. Tyler had no idea what to say. He walked over to the sword and the ground and pulled it out.
“So, umm,” He looked at her, “do you still want to spar?”
“You mean it?” Her face lit up, “You’ll let me teach how to use a sword? You’re holding it backwards,” she said quietly.
“Oh,” he switched hands.
She stood up and grabbed her sword and held it in front of her abdomen pointing straight up.
“Umm, okay. You have it at your waste and facing the right. This sword is heavy and the stance you have will have you swinging upwards a lot and that will tire you out quickly. If you hold it like me, you can swing down and perform chops and that will take less effort,” she said trying to sound in charge, but her lack of confidence was showing through. But, Tyler fixed his stance anyway.
“Now, take a step and swing down,” she told and he took one step and swung down with huge force. “Umm, was that you or the sword? I know it’s heavy but you have to be in control. Relax and try again.” He took another step and swung down smoother. “Good. Umm, let’s see. I know when you swing down, I want to chop to the left and then swing back to the right and up a little.” He looked at her a little confused. “I’m sorry. Here let me show you!”
Cocytus gripped her sword and swung down, then chopped left, and swung her sword upwards and back to the right and regained her original stance. “See, it’s a basic three-hit combo and you can regain your stance a lot quicker,” she explained. “Now you try.” He imitated her perfectly. “Wow! And on your first try, too!” she exclaimed and then grew quiet, “it took me a few days to even begin to master it.”
“People always said I was a visual learner,” he said hoping to cheer her up. But before she could say anything, they heard a gong go off and new portal opened in the middle of the field.
“Oh, I guess it’s time for phase 2. You have to go into that portal that opened up. Good luck,” she said.
He nodded and walked forward into the portal. It was more instant than the first one and it was taken back by the fact that the empty field turned into a huge coliseum.
“Hey you got a big sword,” Fuka said from behind him. “I got a little dagger, but it’s more my style though. I’m a lightning elementalist!”
“I’m a wind elementalist!” Ally said from somewhere above. “Plus, I can fly and I got a spear!” She said and dropped down between the two.
“I guess I’m a dark ice elementalist?” he said questioning.
“Now that you have found your elemental and some training you must now learn teamwork!” Judith said over a loud speaker. The group looked around and noticed the people setting in the seats.
“Hey! Your sword’s bigger than mine! That’s cheating; I’m supposed to be the only one with a BFS!” Noelle shouted from the stands.
“Quiet from the peanut gallery!” a gruff voice came over the loud speaker!
“Oh yea, Kyubbi! Get down here and say that!” Noelle shouted.
“No fighting between you two. We’re here to train those three. Now, Granvase appear!” Judith said over the loud speakers.
A big gate in front of the trio opened up and a huge demon covered in armor appears. He had a bull like face and had hooves for feet. However, his arms and torso were humanoid.
“Hahaha! You look like a big cow,” Ally said cockily.
“Human! Let’s see if your cocky attitude lasts as you try and get past my Adaithiril Armor!” Granvase boasted.
“Adaithiril? What’s that?” Noelle asked Nikki beside her.
“It’s a strong metal. But it’s not a fusion between Mithril and Adamantium though. I have no idea where it got its name,” Nikki explained.
“Yes, you need teamwork to get past his armor,” Judith explained over the loud speakers.
“You two figure out how to get past his armor, I’m going to rest up here,” Ally said and jumped high into the air.
“I know! I’ll use my Speed Burst ability and get behind him and we can take him on from both sides!” Fuka explained. Tyler nodded in agreement. She stood in front of Granvase and then suddenly vanished. Then there was a loud gonging noise and she was in front of the demon holding her head.
“I have a message for Fuka from Quetzcotl, ‘You are not a ghost and can’t pass through solid objects,’” she read.
Granvase picked up Fuka and threw her at Tyler.
“Ha! I am invincible to your ramming speed!” Granvase boasted and pounded his chest with his fist. For some reason that caught Ally’s attention. She was starting form a plan.
“DIVE!” Ally shouted and pointed her spear higher than her head and rushed headfirst at the demon. He jumped back, but wasn’t fast enough and Ally cracked his chest plate with her spear.
“Whoa!” Everyone in the stadium was in shock.
“Now! Hit my spear with lightning!” Ally yelled at Fuka!
“Right!” Fuka said and a glyph appeared under Granvase, “Bolt strike!” She yelled and held out her dagger and a bolt of lightning flew from it to the tip of the spear and the armor shattered.
“Now! Finish it off,” Ally yelled at Tyler.
“Uhh, right!” Tyler said and gripped his sword and a glyph appeared under him and a blue steam started rising from the hilt of his sword.
“What’s he casting?” Noelle asked Cocytus.
“I-I didn’t teach him any magic,” she answered quietly.
“Let’s see if I understand this,” Tyler muttered to himself. “ICE GRAVE!” he shouted and swung his sword down into the ground and icicles came jutting out of the ground from the sword in a straight line to Granvase, who was still stunned from the thunder attack. He took the full force of the attack.
“Do I get bonus points for actually doing the whole teamwork thing?” Noelle asked.
The whole stadium was quiet after seeing Tyler use an advanced move like Ice Grave with no formal training.
TO BE CONTINUED
“I don’t get it. Shouldn’t Fuka be the wind elementalist?” Noelle asked.
“What do you mean?” Ally asked back.
“Her name is Fuka! Fuka’s always use wind,” Noelle yelled.
“I think we had enough fun with names with Grande Vache here,” Judith said.
“And what’s the deal with giving her Quetzcotl. That’s an Aztec myth and is it even thunder related?” Noelle didn’t hear what Judith said.
“Well, it was a sky god and connected to the planet Venus. And should really be saying anything, Aquilla is just constellation,” Judith said.
“You and your stupid facts. I’d be smart too if I worked in a school,” Noelle pouted. |